There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.